Research Article
A Hierarchical Allometric Scaling Analysis of Chinese Cities: 1991–2014
Figure 3
The allometric scaling relationships between urban population and urbanized area based on the rank-size distributions of Chinese cities [Note. Due to the fact that some satellite towns were incorporated into vicinal large cities, the total number of officially approved cities fell from 2000 to 2010. In 2000, Chinese cities failed to follow the allometric scaling law.]
| (a) 2000 (665 cities) |
| (b) 2010 (656 cities) |